Thursday, February 14, 2008

And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

--Dylan Thomas

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

不執著,不是不要;放下,不是放棄

佛陀說:吾視王侯之位,如過隙塵;視金 玉之寶,如瓦礫。可是佛祖並沒有叫人非放棄名利富貴不可,只是放下內心的執著與煩惱罷了。這就是禪師喜歡說「不執著,不是不要;放下,不是放棄」的真義。

--廖閱鵬《換個心情過日子》